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The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley

The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley

Mar 01, 1984 1h 20m
6.5
6 votes

Synopsis

In 1947 by the Beskid mountains, the traces of war still linger, destroyed tanks dispersed throughout the farmland creating an eerie backdrop. This film follows a ten-year-old boy and the strange visions he encounters, his world of fantasy exacerbated with ample time, space, and a lack of companionship or guidance. We see the adults that influence and dominate his life, for better or for worse. Surreal and packed with an excellent study of human emotions and motivations compounded by their rural, isolated vacuum of a town, this is a timeless and severely underrated film from a brilliant Czech director.

Title The Little Shepherd Boy from the Valley
Companies Filmové studio Barrandov
Countries Czechoslovakia
Keywords based on novel or book, post world war ii, 1940s